13% of federal civilian workforce is affected, although DHS – which spurred budget standoff – remains funded
A limited US government shutdown came into effect on Saturday – the third of Donald Trump’s second term – after negotiations between the White House and Democrats in Congress failed to agree on new restrictions for federal immigration agents.
The shutdown affects about 13% of the federal civilian workforce and is confined to agencies under the umbrella of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which screens airline passengers.
The latest shutdown is unlikely to be lifted soon – US lawmakers have left Washington DC for a 10-day break.
The “vote blue no matter who” people are the exact neoliberals who got us Trump in the first place. What’s the point of voting blue if you’re going to get another pro-elite, pro-capitalism, anti-working class political party? The “vote blue no matter who” people also happen to never talk about ranked choice voting or any other voting system that can get us out of this two party system because the elite benefit from that very system.
“Vote blue no matter who” is a psyop by the corporate and political elites trying to resist the working class from eating away at even a modicum of their vast amount of power.
Agreed. But ranked choice ain’t coming from anybody but progressives, and progressives ain’t happening unless we push them across the finish line in their primary. We’re stuck with the first past the post, two party bullshit system until we can put progressives in power despite the system working against that. Progressive policies are popular, it’s just that a combination of voter apathy and corporate propaganda have successfully oppressed the will of the people. While we still have free and fair elections, primaries are the key to setting us free. If those go away, we can still free ourselves, but it might take following some recipes from a certain cookbook.
Apes together strong.